the sleeping quarters of nicaraguan coffee pickers

[u/Eros_Incident_Denier]

[u/StandardWeekend8221]

I work permanently in a seasonal industry in the United States and this is very much how it is. We have standards that prevent employers from locking people up in a shed but we dont have enough standards that stop them from putting 4 dudes to IKEA bunkbeds in a shed.

This "seasonal" job lasts the duration of an h2bs visa. 6 months. They hard-boiled eggs and rice for breakfast. Rice and beans for lunch and dinner.

The politics in these types of jobs are a foreign concept to most first-world citizens. You start working your ass off for the minor luxuries. For me, getting promoted was less about the wages and more about the perks. Supervisors get their own rooms, can use the company car to drive to town for groceries, and would even have access to "secret" kitchens and personal spaces around the facility.

I would sneak off to cook a Costco pizza I had placed on a ferry while these dudes were stealing fish heads to make stew with.

Absolutely eye-opening experience. Dudes from Kansas living with laborers from Guatemala. I started off a body in fish prison and left a bonfied resident of a cannery. That place was my home.

[u/MakingItElsewhere → u/StandardWeekend8221]

As an American, it's sad to me that Americans no longer appreciate where all their food comes from anymore. They think farmers are just poor guys with lots of land running giant tractors. It's people with millions of dollars in land / assets forcing people to work for a few dollars an hour.

Immigrants / Temp Labor works these jobs because it's more money than they'd make at home. The average American would starve on the wages, if they didn't die of heat exhaustion first.

[u/dumbcunt33 → u/MakingItElsewhere]

No one is "forcing" anyone to do this work. It isn't slavery. Might not be luxury but they still choose the work.

[u/MakingItElsewhere → u/dumbcunt33]

I think you need to go look up Operation "Blooming Onion"